Friday, March 4, 2011

Friday March 4, 2011

Every single day, I check the home page of NHL.com. And everyday, I groan at the puns that lead off each story. Instead of complaining only to my coworker, Dan, I'm going to start documenting it. Today, there were four. (There were actually more, but these were the biggest headlines).

Tied for 3rd are a pretty standard pun for the NHL, using a players last name and making it into some phrase. Jarret Stoll scored the lone goal in the game, which I guess is considered stealing the game. It's really just because that's what his name lends itself to.
Darryl Boyce turns the hockey game into a "Boyce Night Out," which again is a complete stretch. Again, it's just the closest phrase that uses the GWG scorers last name.
The Hurricanes "Stairway to Seven" is a bad play off the classic rock song. There was no stairway to the OT wins, and frankly, barely beating a midocre club in OT to cling onto playoff contention by one point is nothing to write home about.
Lucic's pun takes the cake for today though. Last time I checked, a loose cannon was "an unpredictable person or thing, liable to cause damage if not kept in check by others." I guess it can work, even though the phrase generally has a negative connotation, but still, it's not unpredictable for one of the top ten goal scorers to net a single goal against a porous defense. I mean, Tampa is at the top of their devision while still sporting a negative goal differential. Plus, Looch is just a bad stretch.